OT: Conservative stalwart, Paul Weyrich dies

Discussion Topic

Return to Forum List

This thread has been locked

Messages 1 - 8 of total 8 in this topic

apogee

climber

Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 18, 2008 - 11:50pm PT

I posted this on the 'restoring Conservatism' thread, but got no bites (maybe that thread has run it's course). So here goes:

Paul Weyrich has died:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2008/12/paul_weyrich_dies_conservative.html

I am not at all familiar with him, but I'm curious about what some of the longstanding ST conservatives thought or knew about him. Did he play a significant role in some of what you consider core conservative values? How?

This is an honest query, and not a troll. Really.

apogee

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2008 - 11:55am PT

Hmmm. No bites here, either. From what little I've read, Weyrich is right up there with Goldwater and Reagan as being key formative conservative thinkers.

Fattrad, bookworm, bluering, JEleazarian, and others: never heard of this guy? No opinion? Don't care?

UncleDoug

Social climber

Dec 19, 2008 - 12:19pm PT

The Repugnants are licking their wounds.....

Koda

Sport climber

The South

Dec 19, 2008 - 12:32pm PT

I'm not a supertopo conservative, but I do know a bit about Paul Weyrich - as part of my day job, I study guys like him. Weyrich is generally considered one of the founders of the Religious Right in America (he along with Falwell and others founded the Moral Majority), is the father of direct mail solicitation (you know, those pesky emails or snail mail letters asking for money).

TradIsGood

Chalkless climber

the Gunks end of the country

Dec 19, 2008 - 12:33pm PT

Never heard of him before.

From wikipedia write-up he looks more neo-con (i.e. religious faction) than real conservative.

apogee

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2008 - 12:40pm PT

Yeah, that was kind of the gist I was getting, too- he was part of the melding of religion into conservative/republican movement of several decades ago. There has been some talk of the Repubs redirecting themselves back towards core conservatism, and perhaps separating (or at least compartmentalizing) the religious component of the ideology. Maybe Weyrich's passing is some kind of metaphor for this? Probably not.